How to Check SELinux Status on RHEL 6

In this post, i will share on how to check Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) status on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). SELinux is a Linux feature that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies in the Linux kernel. First method to check the SELinux status is using sestatus command. The sestatus command returns the SELinux status and the SELinux policy being used on Linux RHEL 6 server as per below example :

1. Simply run this command to check the SELinux status on your RHEL 6 :

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